Tip cell-specific requirement for an atypical Gpr124- and Reck-dependent Wnt/β-catenin pathway during brain angiogenesis

eLife

Volumn 4, Issue JUNE, 2015, Pages 1-25

  Vanhollebeke, Benoit ^a,b,c   Stone, Oliver A ^a,b   Bostaille, Naguissa ^c   Cho, Chris ^d   Zhou, Yulian ^d   Maquet, Emilie ^a   Gauquier, Anne ^c   Cabochette, Pauline ^c   Fukuhara, Shigetomo ^e   Mochizuki, Naoki ^e   Nathans, Jeremy ^d   Stainier, Didier Y R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HEART AND LUNG RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; WNT PROTEIN; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; GLYCOSYLPHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL ANCHORED PROTEIN; GPR124 PROTEIN, ZEBRAFISH; LUCIFERASE; PRIMER DNA; RECK PROTEIN, ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEIN;

ANGIOGENESIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN BLOOD VESSEL; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CELL FUNCTION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; GENE MUTATION; GENE SILENCING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LUCIFERASE ASSAY; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; ZEBRA FISH; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; BRAIN; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; EMBRYOLOGY; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MORPHOGENESIS; MUTAGENESIS; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS; SPINAL GANGLION; TIME LAPSE IMAGING; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; VASCULARIZATION; WNT SIGNALING PATHWAY;

DANIO RERIO;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BRAIN; DNA PRIMERS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GANGLIA, SPINAL; GPI-LINKED PROTEINS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LUCIFERASES; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MORPHOGENESIS; MUTAGENESIS; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; NEUROGENESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; SINGLE-CELL ANALYSIS; TIME-LAPSE IMAGING; WNT SIGNALING PATHWAY; ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

EID: 84933043937     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2050084X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.06489     Document Type: Article

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